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Musicology PhD turned classical radio host in Wisconsin.

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Firing the music director who won half of your Grammys for you is certainly a choice.

06.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Things American society has totally melted down over:
- "reefer"
- Dungeons & Dragons
- the song Suicide Solution
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City
- imaginary razor blades in Halloween candy

Things we're apparently fine with:
- a computer that tells you to kill yourself

04.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Margaret Bonds' Montgomery Variations (1964) | Minnesota Orchestra | Scott Yoo
Margaret Bonds' Montgomery Variations (1964) | Minnesota Orchestra | Scott Yoo YouTube video by Minnesota Orchestra

People need to know her Montgomery Variations. They're pretty amazing: youtu.be/ereaXUDie-A?...

03.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
A freshly opened bag of Old Dutch All Dressed Ripples potato chips.

A freshly opened bag of Old Dutch All Dressed Ripples potato chips.

As a tribute to Team Canada and their efforts on the ice, I'm going to go ahead and eat this entire bag of chips today.

22.02.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't imagine what it feels like to be a Winnipeg fan right now.

22.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking about all the guys about to have their minds blown at halftime when their wives/girlfriends/moms say "oh, hey, we dance to this at zumba! I love this song!"

08.02.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reefer Madness

06.02.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His other compositions include the opera scene in The Fifth Element, and I hope his Mahler 10 completion sounds like that.

31.01.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chaslin - Wikipedia

I think it's this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A...

31.01.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

When we played Louie, Louie in high school marching band it was marked Tempo di Louie and it's hard to argue with that.

27.01.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whiskey Tango Fridays

13.01.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No taxation with aerial defecation.

20.10.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lucille Vaughan Payne's Two Commandments, from The Lively Art of Writing: 1. Do not use the first person; and 2. Do not use the word "there" -- ever.

Lucille Vaughan Payne's Two Commandments, from The Lively Art of Writing: 1. Do not use the first person; and 2. Do not use the word "there" -- ever.

So do you endorse Lucile Vaughan Payne's jihad against the word itself?

19.10.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

08.10.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 7962 πŸ” 930 πŸ’¬ 167 πŸ“Œ 95

I'm pretty sure the Rapture already happened, and the only person taken was Prince.

23.09.2025 13:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Playing the Dover Quartet's new album with works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate and Pura FΓ© as our New Classical Album of the Week on WPR Music.

18.09.2025 22:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

30.07.2025 01:10 πŸ‘ 42409 πŸ” 9404 πŸ’¬ 800 πŸ“Œ 603
"Local. Trusted. Defunded." is featured on the GBH Mural in Boston, Mass., on July 18, 2025.

"Local. Trusted. Defunded." is featured on the GBH Mural in Boston, Mass., on July 18, 2025.

Federal funding is gone.
But we're not going anywhere.

18.07.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 744 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 30
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The End of Public Radio Music? Bob Boilen writes about the importance of public radio music amid looming cuts.

"More than 23 mill listeners tune in to 687 public radio music stations. It would affect almost all programming, incl AAA stations with genres such as independent rock, bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel, country, soul, hip-hop, local music. 96% of all classical music is played on public radio stations."

17.07.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

No there isn't.

11.07.2025 23:49 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

It Never Rains (In Southern Amazonia)

09.07.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine being in charge of the Enterprise laundry that week.

27.06.2025 23:55 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Expanse except for Amos.

23.06.2025 23:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm a fan of Weinberg's op. 18 piano quintet. An interesting contrast with Shostakovich.

06.05.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I bet Disney would pay real money for a Pope Lando II.

22.04.2025 22:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in β€˜ghostbusters’

17.04.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 10774 πŸ” 1812 πŸ’¬ 343 πŸ“Œ 180

It never ceases to amaze me how noisy commercial classical recordings can be. So many birds. The Tokyo String Quartet has a full-on police chase going on in the background of one of their more recent Beethoven records.

16.04.2025 04:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did not plan it that way - I just felt like hearing this new recording today!

09.04.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And as it happens, I'm playing Jeneba Kanneh-Mason's new recording of Price's Fantasie Negre No. 1 right this instant on wpr.org

09.04.2025 22:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

21.03.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 29303 πŸ” 7432 πŸ’¬ 170 πŸ“Œ 203